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Stránská skála (often without diacritics as Stranska skala) is a hill and refers to a Mid-Pleistocene-Cromerian interglacial most important paleontological site in Central Europe.  Its northwestern slope is composed from karstified limestone cliffs in which numerous fossiliferous fissures and caves were found. Approximately 48 meter (157 ft) of this slope are covered by complex talus fan.

A good reference or gameobject to a computer game. 

8k difuse map, normal map, 4k ambient occlusion map...

Photogrammetry from 550 photos.

Stránská rock 1

3D scan of an original fossilized skeleton of a giant deer (*Megaloceros giganteus*) found in Ireland from the Late Pleistocene (ca. 12,000 years old). The males had a shoulder height of around 2.1 meters and their antlers are the largest known in any deer with a width up to 4 meters. The giant deer disappeared around 11,700 years ago in Europe, like many other animals from the Ice Age.

The skeleton of the giant deer can be found in Hall 16 at the NHM Vienna. 

**Specimen**: Giant deer or Irish elk, *Megaloceros giganteus* (Blumenbach, 1799) 

**Inventory number**: NHMW-GEO-1876/0030/0003

**Collection**: Natural History Museum Vienna, Geology & Paleontology Dept., Vertebrate Coll. (curator: Ursula Göhlich)

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en).

Scanned and edited by Nikola Brodtmann, Anna Haider & Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Leo. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.

Giant Deer (NHMW-GEO-1876/0030/0003)

3D scan of an original fossilized skeleton of a saber-toothed cat (*Smilodon populator*) from the late Pleistocene. It was found in Río Areco in Argentina and is about 40,000 years old. 

The skeleton of the saber-toothed cat can be found in Hall 16 at the NHM Vienna. 

**Specimen**: Saber-toothed cat, *Smilodon populator* (Lund, 1842) 

**Inventory number**: NHMW-GEO-1910/0102/0001

**Collection**: Natural History Museum Vienna, Geology & Paleontology Dept., Vertebrate Coll. (curator: Ursula Göhlich)

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en).

Scanned and edited by Nikola Brodtmann, Anna Haider & Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Leo. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.

Saber-Toothed Cat (NHMW-GEO-1910/0102/0001)

**Nom** : Smilodon californicus

**Description** : Copie de crâne d'un Tigre à dent de sabre

**Dimensions** : 30cm/40cm

**Âge **: Pléistocène supérieur

**Localité **: Los Angeles, USA

**Méthhode** : Acquisition on Shinning 3D EinScan Pro + Use of Catia for parts assembling.

**Information suplémentaire** : https://www.musee-delapparent.com/fr/echantillons/fossiles/292-smilodon-californicus


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Tigre à dent de sabre

Species: *Miracinonyx trumani*

Pleistocene subfossil collected from a cave in the Grand Canyon during a 1936-1937 Civilian Conservation Corps expedition.

This fossil is in the collections at Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Learn about paleontology in the National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fossils/index.htm

Learn more about Grand Canyon National Park’s Centennial: https://www.nps.gov/grca/getinvolved/centennial.htm

American Cheetah

**carnivores ice age**
The mammoth was a genus of pachyderms that lived 
during the Ice Age. There were many types of mammoth that ranged in size from as tall as a giraffe to as short and plump as a pig. The species appearing in Carnivores Ice Age and Carnivores: Ice Age is a woolly mammoth, a species covered in coarse hair that lived throughout the Northern hemisphere during the Pleistocene. Mammoths were similar in shape and form to modern elephants, but most species were larger, with longer tusks and smaller ears, and often a shorter tail.
**accurate**
Mammuthus is an extinct genus of proboscidean mammals in the family Elephantidae, commonly known as mammoths. They existed from approximately 4.8 million years ago until just 3,700 years ago, during the Pliocene (Late Neogene), Pleistocene, and Holocene (Quaternary) epochs. Numerous species have been described, with the woolly mammoth being the most well-known.

mammoth (carnivores ice age)

Modèle 3D de crâne de Rhinoceros Laineux, Coelodonta antiquitatis, il habitait les steppes froides qui couvraient au Pléistocène une grande partie de l'Eurasie.

Rhinoceros Laineux

3D scan of a bearded man holding the jawbone of a Deinotherium in his arm. The Deinotherium, also known as the ‘tusk elephant’, lived from the Middle Miocene until the end of the Early Pleistocene.

You can find a 3D model of the museums Hoe Tusker [here](https://skfb.ly/pwpxz).

The figure was created by Rudolf Weyr (1847-1914) and is part of the decorative program in Hall X of the Natural History Museum.

**Object**: Figure holding a Deinotherium jawbone

**Collection**: Natural History Museum Vienna (contact: Stefanie Jovanović-Kruspel)

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en).

Scanned and edited by V. Winkler & A. Haider (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Leo

Contribution to the digitization project „Einsichten in die gesellschaftspolitische Dimension des NHMW über die Jahrhunderte von der Prägung des Wissenschafts-Verständnisses bis zum Nationalpark in der Lobau“ funded by the [BMWKMS](https://www.bmwkms.gv.at/).

Figure with Deinotherium

KNM-ES-11693 (Eliye Springs Cranium)

This 3D model represents the partial cranium KNM-ES-11693, discovered at Eliye Springs on the western shore of Lake Turkana, Kenya. The specimen is attributed to archaic Homo and is generally dated to the late Middle Pleistocene (~200–300 ka), although it was recovered from surface deposits and lacks precise stratigraphic context

**For Personal and Educational Purposes ONLY. Non-Commercial.**

KNM-ES-11693

The "clawed marsupial sentinel" refers to Thylacoleo carnifex, known as the Marsupial Lion. It was Australia's largest predatory mammal, living from the Pliocene to the late Pleistocene epoch (approx. 2 million to 40,000 years ago). It is known as a "sentinel" or "fearsome predator" for being the top carnivore of its time, occupying an ecological role similar to big cats today.

Clawed Marsupial Sentinel

*Acanthocardia echinata* (Linnaeus, 1758)

Locality: Gravina in Puglia (Southern Italy).

Description: fossil of bivalve mollusk.

Age: Calabrian, Lower Pleistocene.

Dimensions: 3,6 cm X 3,9 cm X 1,9 cm.

Method: 3D model realized with photogrammetry. Acquisition of 129 photos taken by Sony NEX-7.

Acanthocardia echinata (Linnaeus, 1758)

This model was obtained by applying advanced photogrammetry technologies and cutting edge techniques currently not applied to this field that have allowed me to recreate previously unattainable models like Harbin, Yunxian 2 and now HLD-6. This model represents a reconstruction of the HLD-6 cranium from the Hualongdong paleoanthropological site in Dongzhi County, Anhui Province, China.

The HLD-6 individual lived during the late Middle Pleistocene, approximately 300,000 years ago. Stratigraphic and geochronological studies place the Hualongdong hominin assemblage between roughly 331–275 thousand years ago.

This digital reconstruction was created using published anatomical descriptions and visual references from the study “Craniofacial reconstruction and morphological analysis of the HLD-6 skull” (Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 2025) and scaled using cranial measurements from the supplementary dataset of “The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans.”

Hualongdong 6 (HLD-6)

Modeled from images of a real specimens. Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) were a close relative of modern humans that lived across Europe and western Asia during the Pleistocene. They were well adapted to cold environments, with robust bodies and evidence of complex behavior including tool use, symbolic expression, and care for the injured. They declined and ultimately disappeared around 40,000 years ago, likely due to a combination of climate change, competition, and interbreeding with modern humans. Base model created with AI tools, then sculpted/edited in Blender for scientific accuracy.

Neanderthal Skull

1:1 cast of the Banyoles mandible, a Late Pleistocene human fossil discovered near Banyoles, Catalonia, Spain. Dated to approximately 45–66 ka, the mandible exhibits a combination of archaic and modern morphological traits, lacking both a pronounced chin and classic Neanderthal features.

Banyoles mandible

*Fissidentalium rectum* (Gmelin, 1791) †

Locality: Gravina in Puglia (Southern Italy).

Description: fossil of scaphopod mollusk, known as tusk shells.

Age: Calabrian, Lower Pleistocene.

Dimensions: 3,6 cm X 3,9 cm X 1,9 cm.

Method: 3D model realized with photogrammetry. Acquisition of 85 photos taken by Sony NEX-7.

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